CS 457 / 557 -- Computer Graphics Shaders

Winter Quarter 2024

http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/cs557

Class Resources Page

Projects	Handouts

This page was last updated: March 27, 2024

"Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects."

-- Roger Zelazny (science fiction writer)

Coronavirus Information

Your well-being is our #1 concern! I want all of you to have ready-access to the latest information. Find it here.

Attention Ecampusers!

A special welcome to all you Ecampusers! This is only the second time ever that the Shaders class has been offered on Ecampus. Glad to have you here!

As Ecampusers, you will experience the same course that the on-campus students experience. Same material, same notes, same projects, same quizzes, same tests, same online Office Hours, and same me. There are recorded videos that go along with the notes (they are called "LV" for "Lecture Videos" and you will see them in the same table that has links to the notes).

Like I do whenever I have Ecampus students, I have setup a time every week to do a Live Lecture so that you also can hear a discussion of the topics with the chance to ask live questions. You can also ask questions in the Zoom Chat, and I will answer them in a document that I will post in the same place I post the recorded LL videos. these will be Wednesdays at 12:00 noon Pacific Time. They will be on Zoom at: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/8340727662?pwd=b01tZ0hJUzdHNUtrdTRqSkdwbG4zdz09 On-campus Shaderers are welcome to come as well.

These Live Lectures will be recorded so that if you miss them, you can catch them later.

Thanks, Ecampusers, for being here!

Stuff You Should Be Interested In:

• Check out this human heart model. Notice how the texturing, lighting, and transparency cntribute the the understanding of it.

• Here is the Project #6 Gallery!

• Help me evolve this course! Here is a brief Qualtrics survey. Please take it -- your insight really matters to me! Also, be sure to take the university SLE survey too. Thanks!

• Check out this newly-released report on the State of the Game Industry.

• Profesor Bailey's Finals Week Office Hours:

  Day	Times (PDT)
  Monday	2:30-4:30
  Tuesday	10:00-12:00

• Alert student Jameson Yee found this free XR Bootcamp taking place during spring break!

• There were so many great Project #6's! I am going to create a gallery of them so that you can all see what your colleagues did. Click here to fill out the survey.

• For all you see-the-movie-trailer fans, Pixar has just dropped two trailers:
  • Inside Out 2
  • Elio

• For all you read-about-the-movie fans, here are CG articles on:
  • Dune, part 1
  • Across the Spider-Verse

• Want to learn more about the making of the Pixar movie Elemental? Click here.

• If you are in the Corvallis area, check out the Beaver Bar Camp, coming up on April 13.
  What is a "Bar Camp" exactly? Click here to find out.
  I've been to a couple and they are a lot of fun!

• From Disney Imagineering -- a floor that lets VR users walk in place! See it here.

• My nominee for the best CG-related Superbowl commercial goes to Pfizer. See it here.

• Occulus made a VR movie called Henry the Hedgehog. It's really cute. There are, no doubt, a lot of shaders in here. The constant jerkiness is from the viewer looking around the scene.

• If you use Kaltura, be sure your video's permissions are set to Unlisted. You need to proactively do this -- this is not what the default setting is. Canvas makes this ridiculously difficult and usually doesn't work anyway. Instead, the best way to do this is to go to: http://media.oregonstate.edu , then:
  1. Login
  2. Go to My Media
  3. Click on the video
  4. Using the ACTIONS pull-down menu on the right, select Publish
  5. Select Unlisted
  6. Select Save

• If you are a fan of the John Wick movies (that is, you like gratuitously violent special effects), here are a couple of videos you should check out:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbXFzPMSmM0
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpJs_riGn5c

• Here is a blog post on advice for aspiring game developers. I'm not sure how to assess the validity of the advice, but thought you'd like to see it anyway.

• Here is one of my favorite Pixar shorts, chock full of simulation and shader special effects. It's called Piper and can be found here. Sure to make you say "Awwww...".

• Many of you want to know more about 3D-scanning real objects. Check this out! Here is a video explanation of Adobe's Substance 3D Sampler. Here is the web page for it. Apparently there is a 30-day free trial. If you try it, let me know what you did and how it went.

• Computer on its last legs? The College of Engineering has a Laptop Checkout Service. Not sure what the graphics capabilities are, though.

• So that you can plan ahead, Test #2 will go live at 12:01 AM PT on Wednesday, March 20. It will close at 23:59 PT on Sunday, March 24. It wil consist of 40 questions, on Canvas, multiple choice, open-notes, closed friends.

• This CS 457/557 shader, find, helps you identify key parts of objects by their (s,t) or (x,y,z) coordinates: find.glib, find.vert, find.frag. It's useful to isolate certain parts of objects in order to do some effect on them without affecting the rest of the object.

• Cool CG simulation of an Oregon earthquake!

• Because our classroom computer won't handle render-to-texture, I made a video of the demo I was going to show you. Here it is.

• There is a web site to help you pick color sequences that are colorblind-friendly. It is: http://colorbrewer2.org

• Our "signature object" this time is a dragon in honor of this being the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese New Year calendar starting February 10. Get an OBJ file here:

  Vertices	Triangles	File
  69,449	138,894	dragon138.obj
  18,586	37,168	dragon037.obj
  5,218	10,432	dragon010.obj

  This OBJ file has normals and texture coordnates. Left-click on it to see what the file looks like. Right-click on it to download it.

  If you ever need this model to have less or more detail, let me know.

• Some museums have been photoscanning items in their collections and then have uploaded them to Sketchfab here. Check them out! They're free.

• Click here to see the calendar of student events.

• Here is one of the most amazing cat animations I've ever seen!

• Here is a great source of texture images: https://3dtextures.me/

• The OpenGL 4.6/GLSL 4.60 Reference Card can be found here.
  This isn't absolutely essential to print out, but it is really handy to have around.
  

• Check out these optical illusions. Very cool!

• Here is an Online 3D Model Converter, which you might find handy to convert 3D model files into different formats for your own use.

• Here is a Online Image-to-BMP file converter, which you might find handy to convert images you find into BMP files for use as textures.

• Here is another Online Image-to-BMP file converter, which you might find handy to convert images you find into BMP files for use as textures.

Graduation! Graduation! Graduation!

1. On Friday, June 14 (the Friday of Finals Week), EECS will hold its annual Graduation Celebration. The event runs from 3:00-5:30 at Gill Coliseum and there is a reception afterwards in the plaza just outside. Invite your friends and families to join us to celebrate your extraordinary achievement! Ecampusers: this includes you too! Go here for more information.

   BTW, this will all be livestreamed! The link will be posted here.

2. The all-university graduation is the next day, Saturday, June 15. Ecampusers: this includes you too! Go here for more information.

3. And, as if that isn't enough, Ecampus is holding a special reception for all online graduates, Saturday morning, June 15, 7:30-9:00 AM, leaving you plenty of time to lineup for the all-university graduation. Go here to see last year's information.

Job-Hunting Information:

• The Spring All-Industries Career and Internship Fair is April 17, 11:00-3:00 PDT at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center. Additional information is likely to be posted here.

• The student Career and Networking Events Calendar can be found here.

• There is a great book called: Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job
  It prepares you for CS interview questions by suggesting strategies and giving a nice review of data structures, recursion, and other programming information you might be asked about.
  Best of all, the OSU library has it in electronic form. Click here, scroll down just a little bit, then click on View and download full book.
  (I have a paper copy of it if you'd like to see it.) Also, it's under $30 on Amazon

• The magazine Computer Graphics World had an interesting article on Looking for a Job in CG.

• Here are a couple of articles about job opportunities in 3D graphics entitled Realtime Skills Wanted and Visualizing the Future. However, know that these articles were co-sponsored by Unreal Engine, so clearly the conclusions are self-serving. They are interesting anyway.

• Also, here is a Podcast about How to Make Money doing 3D. The part about How to Apply for a 3D Job comes in at 15:32.

What We Will Be Doing

The goals of this course are to leave you "career-ready" (i.e., both work-ready and research-ready) for tasks that require the implementation of graphics algorithms in the form of shaders.

CS 457/557 topics include:

• A more advanced look at the graphics pipeline
• A more advanced look at transformations, including non-linear
• Lighting
• Color
• Opacity
• Step boundaries
• Smooth step boundaries
• Positional and gradient noise
• Fractional Brownian Motion (FBM, 1/f, octave) noise
• The OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)
• GLSL Vertex shaders
• GLSL Fragment shaders
• GLSL Geometry shaders
• GLSL Tessellation shaders
• GLSL Compute shaders
• Shaders for image manipulation
• Shaders for displacement and bump mapping
• Hiding data in textures
• Using shaders in visualization

Graphics Card Levels

If you are wondering what types of shaders your own graphics card supports, check this table. You can tell what shaders the card supports by looking at the Shader Model (or Shader Level) or what DirectX / OpenGL version it supports:

Shader Model	OpenGL	DirectX	Supports
3.0	2.x	9	Vertex, Fragment
4.0	3.x	10	Geometry
5.0	4.x	11	Tessellation, Compute

We will cover all of these different types of shaders.

Prerequisites

If you don't have any of these under your belt, I suggest that you look over the CS 450/550 class notes, which can be found here.

Professor

Office:	Kelley 2117 (2nd floor, south side)
Phone:	541-737-2542
Email:	mjb@cs.oregonstate.edu

Prof. Bailey's Zoom Office Hours:

There is no Required Textbook!

Course material will consist of my notes and web pages.
All required course materials for this class will cost you $0.00 (i.e., free).

Optional Textbook

There is a textbook, based on the notes for this class.

But, don't buy it! At least, not yet.

But, the book does have more detail in places. If you want to see what is inside it, there is one in the CGEL "library". It is chained to the bookshelf. I also have one in my office.

Bailey and Cunningham, Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, CRC Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-56881-434-6. If you do end up wanting it, it is available through Amazon, or through CRC Press. Last I looked, it was cheaper on the CRC site. Not sure why.

Other Good References

Handouts and Recorded Videos

Class Schedule

To see an Academic Year calendar, click here.

Class time is: Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:00 - 11:30.

Unless otherwise specified, all of our classes will be in Wilkinson Hall room 110. That room is actually the Gilfillan Auditorium. It can be accessed most easily from 26th Street at the back of the building.

No class on: Monday January 15. (Martin Luther King holiday.)

Note: this schedule is my best guess at where we will be when. It is only approximate.

Week #	Starting Date	Topics
1	Jan 8	Introductions. General course information. History of Shaders The graphics pipeline -- how it really works. Homogeneous coordinates. Coordinate systems: Model, World, Eye, NDC, Clip, Screen. Introduction to the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) Attribute, Uniform, and Varying variables GLSL built-in functions and variables glman The GLSL API The GLSLProgram C++ class Vertex shaders
2	Jan 15	No class on January 15: Martin Luther King holiday. Stripes in model vs. world coordinates The smoothstep( ) function Checkers Z-buffer pollution Geometry Morphing GLSL Textures: unsigned byte, floating point, 2D, 3D, parameters, binding, texture units, multitextures, sampler functions Using textures in the vertex shader: displacement maps Noise: Positional, Gradient. Cubic and quintic interpolation. Fractional Brownian Motion (FBM, 1/f), turbulence. glman Noise Reading a noise texture Using noise to create terrain
3	Jan 22	More noise Lighting Disco-ball Lighting Bump mapping
4	Jan 29	SSAO Morphing Timer Noise Terrain
5	Feb 5	Cube mapping Reflection, Refraction More fun with vertex shaders: Dome projection, Hyperbolic geometry. Test #1 Review Test #1 goes live at 12:01 AM PT on Wednesday, February 7. It closes at 23:59 PT on Sunday, February 11. It wil consist of 40 questions, on Canvas, multiple choice, open notes. A Public Service Announcement: Valentine's Day is next week!
6	Feb 12	Happy Valentines's Day on Wednesday! Discuss the Final Project. Image Manipulation Render to Texture
7	Feb 19	The optics of rainbows The optics of diffraction The optics of lenses Geometry Shaders A one-page PDF project proposal is due to me by 23:59:59 on Wednesday, February 21. Turn it in on Teach.
8	Feb 26	Geometry Shaders Tessellation shaders Scientific Visualization using shaders
9	Mar 4	Compute Shaders Click here to see the Compute Shader particle system from the class notes. Advanced Bump Mapping: Surface Local Coordinates Advanced Bump Mapping: Normal Mapping Advanced Bump Mapping: Parallax Mapping
10	March 11	Algorithmic Art Vulkan and its GLSL Shaders Test #2 review. Test #2 goes live at 12:01 AM PT on Wednesday, March 20. It closes at 23:59 PT on Sunday, March 24. It wil consist of 40 questions, on Canvas, multiple choice, open-notes. More Information

Live Lectures

At a day and time to be determined, I will be hosting a Live Lecture on Zoom. We will go over some current course materials and see live demos. The important thing is that it will be a time for you to ask live questions. Each LL will probably last anywhere from 60 to 90 minutes.

Attendance at the LLs is optional. These sessions will be recorded (see below) in case you missed them.

Here is my Zoom-room.

LLV = Live Lecture Video

Week #	LLV	Chat
1	LLV	PDF
1B	LLV	PDF
2	LLV	PDF
3	LLV	PDF
4	LLV	PDF
5	LLV	PDF
6	LLV	PDF
7	LLV	PDF
8	LLV	PDF
9	LLV	PDF
10	LLV	PDF

Projects

Project Turn-In Procedures

• Your project turnins will be electronic.

• Your electronic turnin will be done at http://teach.engr.oregonstate.edu and will consist of:
  
  1. A PDF report. The PDF file should include:
     • A cover page (name, email address, project name)
     • Images
     • Key snippets of code
     • The link to a Kaltura video or YouTube video or Loom video (or something else that I can open and view), demonstrating that your project does what the requirements ask for. Narrate your video so that you can tell me what it is doing.
  2. Source files of everything (.cpp, .glib, .vert, .frag, .geom, .tcs, .tes).

• You can zip up all the files you are turning in except the PDF. Please turn it in separately so I can run my gather-up-all-the-PDFs script.

• If you need to re-upload any part of your project to Teach, re-upload everything. Teach treats each upload as a brand new submission. It does not accumulate things that you have previously uploaded.

• Submissions are due at 23:59:59 on the listed due date.

• I know some of you know the Cg and HLSL languages for shaders, but all GPU assignments must be done in GLSL.

• Your project will be graded and the score posted to your Canvas Grades If you lost any points, there will be a comment about it.

Bonus Days and Late Assignments

Projects are due at 23:59:59 on the listed due date, with the following exception:

Each of you has been granted 5 Bonus Days, which are no-questions-asked one-day extensions which may be applied to any project, subject to the following rules:

1. No more than 2 Bonus Days may be applied to any one project
2. Bonus Days cannot be applied to tests or quizzes
3. Bonus Days cannot be applied to the Final Project Proposal, the Final Project, or the CS 557 Paper Project

If you turn in a project three or more days late, your score is a zero.

If you turn in a project late and you don't have enough Bonus Days left to spend on it, your score is a zero.

You don't need to ask me, or even tell me, that you are using Bonus Days. Just turn your project in one-or-two days late. I have a script that will check your turn-in date and deduct the Bonus Days.

It is up to you to track how many Bonus Days you have used up. However, I also keep a spreadsheet of all of your Bonus Days. If you lose track, send me an email and ask.

Grading

The quizzes will be done via Canvas. They will open each Friday at 12:01 AM PT and will close Sunday night at 23:59 PT. Canvas is very unforgiving about due times -- don't push it.

Your final grade will be based on your overall class point total. Based on an available point total of 1120, grade cutoffs will be no higher than:

Points	Grade
1080	A
1060	A-
1040	B+
1020	B
1000	B-
980	C+
960	C
940	C-
920	D+
900	D
880	D-

Notice that this grade scale is not 90%-80%-70%-60%. That is because I just do a soft grade on the projects.

Downloadable Files

Here is a folder with some of my favorite OBJ files.

Opening up the ShaderSampleWindows.zip or ShaderSampleLinux.tar or ShaderSampleMac.tar file will produce a folder full of all the other files you need. You do not need to go hunt the internet for any other files. Use the ones that have been given to you.

Windows Visual Studio 2022 Sample Program	ShaderSampleWindows.zip	Un-zip, get into the ShaderSampleWindows folder, and double-click on the .sln file, then select Build→Clean Solution, then select Build→Build Sample, then select Debug→Start Without Debugging
Linux Sample Program	ShaderSampleLinux.tar	Un-tar (tar -xvf ShaderSampleLinux.tar), then cd ShaderSampleLinux, then make sample, then ./sample
Mac Sample Program *	ShaderSampleMac.tar *	Un-tar (tar -xvf ShaderSampleMac.tar), then cd ShaderSampleMac, then make sample, then ./sample
Sample shader files	pattern.glib, pattern.vert, pattern.frag	Right-click to download and save
Windows Visual Studio 2022 Shadows Program	Shadows.zip	Un-zip and double-click on the .sln file, then select Build→Clean Solution, then select Build→Build Sample, then select Debug→Start Without Debugging
BMP-to-Texture function	bmptotexture.cpp
Our own version of the sphere-drawing function	osusphere.cpp
The C++ class to use GLSL shaders	glslprogram.h, glslprogram.cpp
The NEW C++ class to use GLSL shaders with Geometry Shaders	glslprogram.h, glslprogram.cpp
Code to load an OBJ file	loadobjfile.cpp
glm Folder	glm.zip	Un-zip into your VS project folder
Keytime Animation C++ class	keytime.h, keytime.cpp
2D Noise Texture	noise2d.064.tex
3D Noise Texture	noise3d.064.tex
Kelley Engineering Center test image	kec.bmp
The find shader	find.glib, find.vert, find.frag
Shader code to produce the rainbow and heated-object color scales	colorscales.txt
Mars Panoram	MarsPanoram.zip

* Previous Mac users in this class have recommended that, rather than use the trackpad, you go get a Bluetooth 3-button mouse. If you need to use the Mac trackpad, I've been told that a two finger click/tap works as a right click and option+click works as a middle click.

An alert CS 450/550 student put together these instructions for getting shadsrs to run on a Mac.

If you want to use an OBJ object in glman, download it and include it in your GLIB file like this:
Obj spaceship.obj

Or use an OBJ file in your C/C++ file by including the file loadobjfile.cpp into your own code. Then, place the .obj object into a display list:

// global variables:
GLuint DL;
GLSLProgram Pattern;

. . .

// do this in InitGraphics( ):
Pattern.Init( );
bool valid = Pattern.Create( "pattern.vert", "pattern.geom", "pattern.frag" );
if( !valid )
	fprintf( stderr, "Pattern shader could not be created.\n" );
else
	fprintf( stderr, "Pattern shader successfully created.\n" );

. . .

// do this in InitLists( ):
DL = glGenLists( 1 );
glNewList( DL, GL_COMPILE );
LoadObjFile( "spaceship.obj" );
glEndList( );

. . .

// and do this in Display( ):
Pattern.Use( );
. . .
glCallList( DL );
Pattern.UnUse( );

Other Files

To download files, right-click on their links.

1. .obj files

2. Want to use the Nvidia Lobby in a cube map? Here are the files:
   nvposx.bmp
   nvnegx.bmp
   nvposy.bmp
   nvnegy.bmp
   nvposz.bmp
   nvnegz.bmp

3. Want to use the Kelley Engineering Center Atrium in a cube map? Here are the files:
   kec.posx.bmp
   kec.negx.bmp
   kec.posy.bmp
   kec.negy.bmp
   kec.posz.bmp
   kec.negz.bmp

Downloadable Executables

To download files, right-click on their links.

1. noisegraph.exe
2. glman.exe

You might also need these dlls:

1. glew32.dll
2. glut32.dll
3. libcd.lib
4. libcid.lib
5. msvcr71d.dll

Class Rules

Other Useful Online Graphics and Shader Information

• OpenGL:
  • Industry-wide OpenGL Information: http://www.opengl.org
  • The OpenGL 1.1 State Machine Diagram http://www.opengl.org/documentation/specs/version1.1/state.pdf
  • Free OpenGL textbook rscfullbook.pdf
  • Another free OpenGL textbook http://openglbook.com/
  • The OpenGL 4.6 Reference Card can be found here.
    This is not absolutely essential to print out, but it can be really handy to have around.
  • OpenGL Man Pages: https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL-Refpages/gl4/

• The GLUT Library:
  • PDF GLUT Documentation: https://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/glut-3.spec.pdf

• The GLUI Library:
  • OpenGL User Interface (GLUI) Documentation https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/glui/Documentation/GLUI%202/glui_manual_v2_beta.pdf?viasf=1

• GLSL:
  • The OpenGL 4.6 Reference Card, which includes a lot about GLSL, can be found here.
    This is not absolutely essential to print out, but they can be really handy to have around.

• WebGL:
  • Khronos group's WebGL Page: http://khronos.org/webgl
  • OSU WebGL site: http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~mjb/webgl
  • three.js: http://threejs.org/
  • JQuery user interface: http://api.jqueryui.com/
  • Ed Angel's WebGL site for his book examples: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel/BOOK/INTERACTIVE_COMPUTER_GRAPHICS/SIXTH_EDITION/CODE/WebGL/

• SIGGRAPH (The Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics): http://www.siggraph.org

• ACM Digital Library (where a lot of SIGGRAPH papers can be found): http://dl.acm.org You can get at this for free if you come in from an OSU domain.

• Game Information:
  • Game Developer: http://www.gamedev.net
  • Gamasutra: http://www.gamasutra.com

• 3D Models you can download:
  • Free 3D: https://free3d.com/
  • TurboSquid: http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/3D-Models/free/obj
  • Level of Detail book support (free): http://lodbook.com/models
  • Florida State (free): http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/data.html
  • Digimation (costs money): http://www.digimation.com

• WebGL isosurface of low-frequency 3D noise function http://kirox.de/test/Surface.html

Student Resources:

Academic Calendar

All students are subject to the registration and refund deadlines as stated in the Academic Calendar: https://registrar.oregonstate.edu/osu-academic-calendar

Counseling and Psychological Services

Oregon State University's Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) provides OSU students with individual, relationship, and group counseling. I have met some of these people, and they are really good. If you are in any type of emotional difficulty, don't hesitate to contact them. If it makes it easier for you, I will walk over with you.

TELUS: Mental Health Support for Students

TELUS Health Student Support @ OSU is an app that gives all OSU students, including Ecampus students, 24/7 access by text or phone with a licensed mental health counselor. The app makes it easy to schedule short-term counseling appointments with the same ongoing counselor and provides educational materials covering mental health topics. Students can communicate with a counselor in five different languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Spanish or English); additional language options are available upon request. Download this app by looking up "TELUS Health Student Support" on the Google Play Store (Android) or the Apple App Stoe (iPhone).

Establishing a Positive Community

It is important you feel safe and welcome in this course. If somebody is making discriminatory comments against you, sexually harassing you, or excluding you in other ways, contact the professor, your academic advisor, and/or report what happened at https://studentlife.oregonstate.edu/studentconduct/ reporting so we can connect you with resources.

Academic Dishonesty

You are expected to do your own work. Helping each other, with explanations or clarifications, is OK. Sharing code with each other or copying code from someone else's archive site (e.g., github), however, is considered cheating. Anyone caught cheating will fail this class, and the matter will be turned over to the Dean's Office.

You are expected to read and understand Oregon State University's Statement of Expectations for Student Conduct, found here: https://beav.es/codeofconduct . If there is any parts of this document that you don't understand, ask me!

Students With Disabilities

Accommodations for students with disabilities are determined and approved by Disability Access Services (DAS), https://ds.oregonstate.edu/. If you, as a student, believe you are eligible for accommodations but have not obtained approval please contact DAS immediately at 541-737-4098 or at disability.services@oregonstate.edu . DAS notifies students and faculty members of approved academic accommodations and coordinates implementation of those accommodations. While not required, students and faculty members are encouraged to discuss details of the implementation of individual accommodations.

All materials used in this course are designed to be accessible. If you require accomodations, please contact DAS immediately.

Student Bill of Rights

OSU has twelve established student rights. They include due process in all university disciplinary processes, an equal opportunity to learn, and grading in accordance with the course syllabus. See: https://asosu.oregonstate.edu/advocacy/rights

Religious Holidays

Oregon State University strives to respect all religious practices. If you have religious holidays that are in conflict with any of the requirements of this class, please see me immediately so that we can make alternative arrangements.

Life Events

As {John Lennon? Allen Saunders?} has said: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans". I care about you as a person. When life happens to you, send me an email and come see me. I might be able to help. But I surely can listen. You are not alone.

Reach Out for Success

University students encounter setbacks from time to time. If you encounter difficulties and need assistance, it's important to reach out. Consider discussing the situation with me or an academic advisor. Learn about resources that assist with wellness and academic success at http://oregonstate.edu/ReachOut. Students are always encouraged to discuss issues that impact your academic success. If you feel comfortable sharing how a hardship might impact your performance in this course, please reach out to me. If you are in immediate crisis, please contact the Crisis Text Line by texting OREGON to 741-741 or call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

Basic Needs

Success at OSU means knowing and using your resources. One helpful resource is the community of staff available at the Basic Needs Center (BNC) for support (bnc@oregonstate.edu, 541-737-3747, https://studentlife.oregonstate.edu/bnc). Students can drop in during open hours and talk with a BNC student leader for resources, ideas and strategies connected to basic needs challenges. The BNC is often known for its food pantry, but there are other resources connected to groceries and affording food and staff who can help you work through housing stressors. Undergraduate students, living in Oregon, are especially encouraged to explore SNAP as a resource. Domestic undergraduate students living in Oregon are more likely than not to be eligible for SNAP. BNC staff are skilled with helping students navigate this process. Additionally, the BNC Textbook Lending Program offers students the opportunity to check out required textbooks for the academic term. If you are comfortable doing so, please talk with me. I will do everything I can to help you.